Has anyone else ran into this problem. Am I making a mistake?
In the terminology of the build system, you're building with host=i386-unknown-mingw32 and target=i386-unknown-cygwin32. Try configuring with those options.
Sounds like the compiler's Makefile should be checking the host rather than the target when adding -package unix too.
Cheers, Simon
(Again, I am building from 6.2.1). If I try to configure cygwin with host = "i386-unknown-mingw32", target = "i386-unknown-cygwin32" it complains that cross compilation is not supported. Did you mean I should go through the cross compilation process? Is there an unofficial binary release for ghc-6.2.1 on cygwin? All I really need is Readline which is not built into the mingw binary release. Initially I tried to get the mingw build to work. This failed. The script 'configure' hangs in the step "checking if your perl works in shell scripts". Has anyone had this problem? Here was my path in the mingw terminal $ echo $PATH .:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/Program Files/Ghostgum/gsview:/c/Ghostscript/gs8.14/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDO WS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Autodesk Shared/:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared Cygwin is intalled. This problem occurs when c:/cygwin/bin is in the path or not. Here is a snippet of the trace where it hangs, in case that could be of use. Ben --- STRACE BELOW checking for perl... /bin/perl checking if your perl works in shell scripts... 36 44296 [main] sh 2592 path_conv::check: this->path(c:\ghc\ghc-6.2.1\configure), has_acls(1) 39 44335 [main] sh 2592 build_fh_pc: fh 0x616D1438 41 44376 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::open: (c:\ghc\ghc-6.2.1\configure, 0x100000) 89 44465 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::open: 0 = NtCreateFile (0x6C4, 80100000, c:\ghc\ghc-6.2.1\configure, io, NULL, 0, 7, 1, 20, NULL, 0) 38 44503 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x100000, supplied_bin 0x10000 33 44536 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to binary 33 44569 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::open: 1 = fhandler_base::open (c:\ghc\ghc-6.2.1\configure, 0x100000) 33 44602 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::open_fs: 1 = fhandler_disk_file::open (c:\ghc\ghc-6.2.1\configure, 0x0) 33 44635 [main] sh 2592 open: 3 = open (configure, 0x0) 41 44676 [main] sh 2592 dtable::dup2: dup2 (3, 10) 35 44711 [main] sh 2592 build_fh_pc: fh 0x616D1640 33 44744 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::dup: in fhandler_base dup 36 44780 [main] sh 2592 dtable::dup_worker: duped '/cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.2.1/configure' old 0x6C4, new 0x68C 34 44814 [main] sh 2592 dtable::dup2: newfh->io_handle 0x68C, oldfh->io_handle 0x6C4 32 44846 [main] sh 2592 dtable::dup2: 10 = dup2 (3, 10) 32 44878 [main] sh 2592 fcntl_worker: 10 = fcntl (3, 0, 0xA) 38 44916 [main] sh 2592 close: close (3) 33 44949 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::close: closing '/cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.2.1/configure' handle 0x6C4 42 44991 [main] sh 2592 close: 0 = close (3) 36 45027 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::set_close_on_exec: set close_on_exec for /cygdrive/c/ghc/ghc-6.2.1/configure to 1 47 45074 [main] sh 2592 fcntl_worker: 0 = fcntl (10, 2, 0x1) 39 45113 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x120000, supplied_bin 0x0 33 45146 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::set_flags: O_TEXT/O_BINARY set in flags 0x20000 32 45178 [main] sh 2592 fhandler_base::set_flags: filemode set to text 32 45210 [main] sh 2592 _cygwin_istext_for_stdio: fd 10: defaulting to text 109 45319 [main] sh 2592 setmode_helper: improbable
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Marlow [mailto:simonmar@microsoft.com]
From a clean windows box I
Installed cygwin to c:/cygwin Added c:/cygwin/bin to path Installed MSys and MinGW in c:/msys and c:/mingw (did not add path) Installed ghc to c:/ghc/ghc-6.2.1 Untarred source to c:/ghc/ghc-6.2.1 (same dir) Copied perl from ghc dist to /cygwin/bin/perl Downloaded and build happy and alex (not that this is necessary but built just fine) Ran ./configure --with-ghc=c:/ghc/ghc-6.2.1/bin/ghc --with- gcc=c:/cygwin/bin/gcc
make
failed while trying to build ghc/compiler. The build rules give the argument -package unix but the binary ghc release from www.haskell.org is a mingw version and so doesn't have package unix. Of course inorder to build the unix library I need ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace and I'm now skuppered.
Has anyone else ran into this problem. Am I making a mistake?
In the terminology of the build system, you're building with host=i386-unknown-mingw32 and target=i386-unknown-cygwin32. Try configuring with those options.
Sounds like the compiler's Makefile should be checking the host rather than the target when adding -package unix too.
Cheers, Simon